Conformal Operators for Partially Massless States
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-04-07 v1
Abstract
The AdS/CFT correspondence is explored for ``partially massless'' fields in AdS space (which have fewer helicity states than a massive field but more than a conventional massless field). Such fields correspond in the boundary conformal field theory to fields obeying a certain conformally-invariant differential equation that has been described by Eastwood et al. The first descendant of such a field is a conformal field of negative norm. Hence, partially massless fields may make more physical sense in de Sitter as opposed to Anti de Sitter space.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0109096,
title = {Conformal Operators for Partially Massless States},
author = {Louise Dolan and Chiara R. Nappi and Edward Witten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0109096},
year = {2010}
}
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14 pages